p. 8 | CURE OF CONSUMPTION

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 13, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 32.

CURE OF CONSUMPTION.

J. M. BUCKLEY, D.D., the editor of the Christian Advocate, himself, if we rightly remember, a former sufferer of pulmonary complaints, and one who has been a close observer and student of all relating to the dread disease, after referring to the many declared specifics for consumption, gives the following “Standard Cure,” which we heartily commend to our readers who may be afflicted:—

There is only one way that furnishes any prospect of overcoming consumption when once started in the system: Life in the open air, with a proper amount of exercise and special lung exercise, whether by climbing mountains, deep inhalations without the assistance of an instrument adapted to make them easy, or by the aid of such instrument. Alleviating medicines, and, in certain stages, tonics, may be helpful; but an economy of vital force, together with a return to primitive simplicity in living, is the essential.

While we have seen scores wasting their time with specifics, neglecting the simple principles herein stated, and dying after a succession of experiments, we have met but few men who, beginning to fight for life before they were obviously doomed to die speedily, have taken up an outdoor life and systematic deep breathing, who have not entirely shaken off the incubus or indefinitely prolonged their lives. Conventionalities of society and domestic cares make it far more difficult for women to avail themselves of nature’s help, except in climates where the inclemency of the weather is not a factor in human deterioration. But many of them, even where their ancestors or husbands had succumbed to the disease, have fought it off by hygienic methods.